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Ever wonder why iPhone users often seem to have the same personality, or why you could never understand an Android fan?
UK researchers finally developed a test that could predict what kind of cellphone a user is likely to have, and here are the conclusions:
A comparison of both Android and iPhone users revealed that iPhone users are more likely to be:
Younger
More than twice as likely to be women
More likely to see their phone as a status object
More extraverted
Less concerned about owning devices favoured by most peopleIn contrast, Android users were more likely to be:
Male
Older
More honest
More agreeable
Less likely to break rules for personal gain
Less interested in wealth and status
The full article is paywalled but an abstract is avilable.
Now if only there was a way to separate correlation and causation...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161121144206.htm
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Thursday November 24 2016, @03:52PM
The tendency for younger users is disconcerting for future digital freedom. These are people that are being trained that it's a good thing for an external entity to be in control of what you can do with your device. Combine that with the lock-in that tends to occur because of Apple's penchant for proprietary protocols and connectors and the future could be even more bleak.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by HiThere on Thursday November 24 2016, @07:17PM
I'm not sure that's right. If my main use of a computer were games, it wouldn't bother me the MS and Apple have abusive EULAs. Similarly, as long as I don't do anything that's NOT networked on my phone, why should I care that it's proprietary. The network is hacked and recorded anyway. I don't know why the feds don't get themselves public approval by running their copying as a user backup service.
So phones AREN'T secure, no matter what you do. (Well, you could transmit messages encoded on some non-networked device I suppose, but it had better be removed from the network before you decode it. And that's considering the networked device as insecure, which is proper.) Remember, the net is recorded, and things which are secure today won't be secure in a few years....or might not be. The mathematical proofs of security make assumptions about implementations which have repeatedly been shown to be false. One time pads are probably safe, as long as nobody else has the same table of random numbers.
What is achievable is *reasonable* security. And Apple isn't going to make it impossible to share your files with non-Apple devices unless they become a LOT more dominant than they are...which they won't do as the "high priced spread".
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.